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Site News: Ringside News Facebook Accounts Hacked

All our Facebook pages have been hacked, stolen and unpublished.

Earlier today some hackers took over our main account that has access to those pages and are removed us from the page settings. We have submitted several tickets to Facebook regarding the hacking and are patiently waiting to hear something back. There is always the chance that we may not be able to recover the accounts.

If you follow us on Facebook, I have opened a new page called “Ringside Talk.” If you guys can all follow it on Facebook, we will be posting our normal updates on that page until we get access back to the page. Please help and spread the word about this to anyone that follows professional wrestling. If you do know someone that works at Facebook or a quick way to get the accounts back, please contact us here.

Simon Gotch Now Cleared to Wrestle Outside of WWE

Simon Gotch has been cleared to wrestle outside of WWE, as his 90-day non-compete clause after his release from WWE has come to an end.

Gotch signed with WWE back in 2013 and was part of the Vaudevillians act alongside Aiden English. Gotch was released by the WWE back in April of this year and has asserted his intentions of working for other promotions ever since his departure.

Vince Russo’s The Brand Recap – Charlotte Struggling on Smackdown, Wrestling Needs Gimmicks, Does Enzo Have Heat Backstage? More!

Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane, and they will attempt to ‘castrate the marks and their dirt sheets’.

Russo points out that this is all in good fun for him, and he doesn’t hate any of these men. Unfortunately, there seems to be some real hatred on the other side of the fence from guys like Wade Keller, Ryan Satin and Mike Johnson. To show his respect to Dave Meltzer, whose father passed away this week, Russo will not be discussing Meltzer’s comments this week.

The first clip of the day presents Bryan Alvarez ranting about the fact that WWE broke up Enzo and Big Cass. Alvarez says that there’s no wonder WWE’s ratings are declining when they decided to break up one of the more popular acts on their roster due to their constant search for ‘heat’.

Russo says that there’s something political going on in the background. He’s heard rumblings of Amore’s backstage issues stemming back to his time in NXT and that probably carried over to the main roster. Quite frankly, Alvarez is right in this case because Enzo and Cass were over, and the fans loved them. However, Russo’s smart enough to understand that heat draws money, and since Cass turned on Enzo the fans have been chanting Enzo’s name with more passion than ever before.

Huge Shift In Betting Odds for WWE Great Balls of Fire

Smart Money bets appear to be coming in for Sunday’s WWE Great Balls of Fire event as several matches have seen shifts in the odds.

Roman Reigns, who was a slight favorite against Braun Strowman, is now the underdog in his match at the event. Also, The Hardys are now heavy underdogs against Shesaro after being the favorites. Seth Rollins is now a favorite against Bray Wyatt.

Here is the updated odds courtesy of PaddyPower:

Brock Lesnar 1/25 (favorite)
Samoa Joe 17/2
Braun Strowman 1/8 (favorite)
Roman Reigns 9/2
Seth Rollins 1/7 (favorite)
Bray Wyatt 4/1
Big Cass 1/14 (favorite)
Enzo Amore 11/2
Alexa Bliss 1/18 (favorite)
Sasha Banks 6/1
Cesaro & Sheamus 1/25 (favorite)
Matt & Jeff Hardy 15/2
The Miz 1/14 (favorite)

It’s expected that there will be more changes as we get close to the event.